August 03, 2012

A disabled victim of a copyright troll threatens to kill himself

TAC has pointed to a Slashdot story (reprinted below) of Prenda’s victim, a disabled guy who can commit an irreversible action if we don’t help him. Words fail me. You…

July 28, 2012

New page: Arcadia Security

I added a new page featuring information about Steve “Lightspeed” Jones’s Arcadia Security. This allegedly forensic company’s website is currently unavailable, but I preserved the screenshots and posted them. This…

July 24, 2012

Prenda’s “Letter of request for informal discovery”: an attorney explains why it is patently invalid

Last week I wrote about Prenda’s new “invention” — sending out letters requesting informal discovery and threatening to file a motion to compel if a recipient does not act. Anyone…

July 18, 2012

New low of Prenda Law: trolls indiscriminately and inappropriately send out “Letter of request for informal discovery”

Did you hear that? John Steele is coming up with a new way to game the judicial system and defraud citizens! Surprised? Did anyone really hope that robocalling was the…

July 13, 2012

Lightspeed Media v. John Doe: a must-read motion written by a real IP attorney

Despite the involvement of the Illinois Supreme Court, Ligtspeed Media Corporation v. Doe frivolous case is not dead yet. No doubt, Steele’s evil mind and Jones’s arrogant irrationality work around…

July 03, 2012

Lightspeed Media Corp. v. John Doe, St. Clair county 11-L-683: A behind-the-scenes look (and it ain’t pretty)

By Raul On June 27th the Illinois Supreme Court issued a Supervisory Order vacating Judge LeChien’s orders of May 21st and allowing the moving ISPs’ motion to quash. How did…

June 20, 2012

Comcast wins. Subpoenas quashed

This spring Comcast, to our pleasant surprise, started consistently refusing to hand over names, phone numbers and addresses of its customers, accused of copyright infringement, to the infamous copyright troll…

June 17, 2012

Prenda Law starts using robocalls to intimidate its targets. Will IARDC continue keeping its head in the sand?

Prenda law, one of the sleaziest law firms in the US history, a brainchild of a divorce-lawyer-turned-copyright-troll John Steele, uses a super-secret homebrewed software, written by unlicensed wannabe forensic experts,…

June 07, 2012

Lightspeed v. Doe news. Early Halloween scare: Unusually lame demand letter

If you follow my tweeter feed and read this site’s comments, many facts in the mini-post series I plan to write are not new (maybe except for the actual demand…

May 25, 2012

Who and where is Prenda Law? What happened to John Steele?

Graham Syfert is an attorney from Jacksonville, Florida. Those who follow the news concerning copyright trolling phenomenon, know him as an author of popular self-help forms for alleged file-sharers, which…